[Vision2020] Narcissist Nader May Run Attention

Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Sat Feb 23 09:39:18 PST 2008


I fully agree.

There is room for a third party under the "runoff" election system.

Have a "preliminary" election at some point during the January-April time-
frame, followed up with a runoff election in November between the two top 
candidates from the preliminary election.

Thoughts?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> Chasuk wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Paul Rumelhart 
<godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Well, narcissist or not, I can get behind the promise to fight
> >>  "corporate greed, corporate power, and corporate control".  It beats 
the
> >>  current administration whose promise was apparently to 
fight "individual
> >>  liberty, common sense, and that damn piece of paper called the
> >>  Constitution".
> >>     
> >
> > The sentiment is wonderful, but the promise is empty, as Nader has no
> > chance of securing the presidency.  All he might accomplish would be a
> > division of the electorate, which would benefit no one except for
> > McCain.  Let's just say that I don't want to be exposed to the horror
> > show that would be McCain.
> >
> >   
>  From a strategic perspective, you are probably right.  Until we move to 
> instant-runoff voting, two-round voting, run-off voting, or something 
> similar, we'll be stuck with a two-party system and choices like this 
one.
> 
> Paul
> 
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